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VOL. IX.
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. FRIDAY, OCT. 8, 1897.
NO 14
.
I Shawnee's electric lights flash forth
IN THE NEW COUNTRY.! with much brilliancy.
The Boston store at Tahlequah was
burglarized lust weelc and a quantity
BRIEF BITS OF GENERAL NEWS
FROM THE TERRITORIES.
Oklahoma and Ilia Indian Territory with
1 lieir General nod Local I.ore,
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TKKKITOKY
of goods stolen.
Oklahoma City lias set a good and
timely example in having city prison-
ers clean the streets and alleys.
| The Oklahoma City Sash and Door
company has been incorporated by
Considerable sickness prevails about Secretary Jenkins. Capital, 16000.
Marietta. |
! Out of 300 colored children who ought
An fx-slave ussociMon been or- L ^ ,n <(.h|)ol ,B 0ulhri<.; bul s0 Bri,
ganged id the Choctaw nation. | Qn hand The othcr8 a,.(, at work in
The (frand jury at Oklahoma City | the cotton fields.
•exonerated the county jailer in the re- Recently af Arapahoe some one start-
cent jail break. tlie ru,nQr thal a bank at Kingfisher
The I'nited States jail at South Mc- had failed and the rumor went all over
Alester is to be enlarged to nearly western Oklahoma.
double its present capacity. j The fin<lin? of the coroners jnrjr at
After the exhibition of Oklahoma Pawnee in the Hall murder case is
City's products at Wichita, they will that Mrs. Fannie Hall was shot and
be sent to Chicago and exhibited. killed by her husband, Frank W. Hall.
The only cry of relief at Oklahoma J Jim Co,„i fo,.merlv a deputy marshal
City over Scott's turn-down is: "Well, j o( the 00urt (or Western District
a liuthrie man didn't get it, anyivay." of Arb„m iBtc.r a deputy for the
The negroes of Pawnee failed to Territory courts, was convicted of
ftrcct school officers and sent their manslaughter at South McAlester re-
children to the white schools. They ; cently.
were refused admittance and went ; The Choctaw higera to Mexico has
home. ! changed its form. This time a syndi-
An explosion took place in the mines ! oate is saW 10 be in tlle oa5t
at South McAlester recently. Three ,or the Panose of purchasing the
colored miners were badly burned and ciaimsof all disgruntled Choc taws who
will likely die. No damage was done to ! Jesire 10 "migrate to Mexico.
the mine. j At the anuual meeting of the Okla-
Cotton picking in the Hartshone homa Anti-llorse Thief association,
country is progressing favorably and he,d recently at Kingfisher, resolu-
the crop is being gathered in good con- ! tions Poss«d denouncing Ibe
dition. The yield is light, and but I lynching at Watonga about a year ago.
very little hired held will be employed Thc reP°rt that members of the a55°-
in saving the crop.
In spite of Judge Tarsney's strong
charge and the efforts of the coijxity
attorney, the grand jury failed to in-
dict any of the men connected with
the lynching of the negro murderer at
Watonga last fall.
The Purcell Register says: Thc In-
dians lost their best friend when Mc*
Kennon was removed from the Dawes
commission. This is the opinion of the
most prominent Indian citizen of our
town and we fully agree with him.
Oklahoma has determined that her
ciation were in the mob is denied.
Thc next territorial meeting will be
held at Ponca City on the third Wed-
nesday in October, 1898. The national
association, which was also in session
there, will meet next year in Eldon,
la., in September.
Major A. C. Sharpe has again issued
an order at the instance of the bureau
of Indian affairs in Washington to all
'those who lease or rent lands in the
Otoe reservation to vacate their lease,
giving them until noon October 20 ta
get all their chattels off the reserya
tion and warning them not to again
population shall enjoy the privilege of lrespnss thereon under penalty of thc
being killed by her own doctors.
Kansas medicine company has been
ejected after a refusal to pay a terri-
torial license fee of 8100 per wagon.
By request of II. E. Asp, the Santa
Fe company has generously tendered
to the people of Oklahoma a passenger
coach stripped of its seats, thus fittiug
it, to be tilled with the products of Ok"
lahoma for exhibition. This car will
be placed under the charge of two at-
tendants and hauled free from Outline
to Chicago and return. One of the ex-
law, which provides 81,000 fine and
imprisonment. There are about twen-
ty-six of these renters involved in this
last order and it will be almost impos-
sible for them to get off within the
time specified.
It has been found necessary to in-
crease the fittings of two of the labora-
tories at the agricultural college to ac-
commodate the increased number of
students in the higher classes who are
trained to do accurate scientific work
along the lines which they have chosen.
pressed condition of the company is The graduates of the college are all
"that each county of the territory be ! profitably employed; twoare assistants
assigned a space in the car for the dis- j and post-graduate students in well
play of the products of that county." known eastern colleges, and several
A company lias been formed at Ard- | others are engaged in teaching. The
more called "The Citizens Compress j ®i> and direction of growth of the
Company," with a prominent capitalist I college continues to be towards a thor-
of Rich Hill, Mo., as one of the princi- oughly modern scientific education-
pal stockholders. All the details were j one that produces workers rather than
fully arranged and steps taken to give theorists; men who can do things rath-
Ardmore a fine compress. Machinery er than talk about them.
Coalgate ladies have organized a
musicale.
Arapahoe is talking of putting in an
electric light system. The merchants
all want it
Students that wont promise to study
cannot enter the Kendall college at
M u 6k ogee.
Indian Ageut Wisdom thinks the
Cherokees should be allowed a dele-
gate to congress.
Fifteen carloads of wheat were re-
cently burned at Afton during the 950,-
000 confiagration.
The fair at Chandler was a big suc-
cess, the best ever held off a railroad
in Oklahoma, it is said.
Caddo was the first town in the
Choctaw nation to be incorporated un-
der the Arkanoas law.
Kufaula claims to be the banner cot-
ton market and that 7,000 bales will be
marketed there this year.
The Apache Indians have to be
guarded on their reservation near
Fort Reno to prevent their escape.
A farmer living near Cloud Chief has
grown a watermelon this season which
weighs exactly one hundred pounds.
The cry for statehood in Oklahoma
is arising and it grows greater every
time a carpet-bagger alights from the
train.
The hay crop in Oklahoma is said to
be-exceedingly good this year and hay
b&lers are in demand throughout the
territory.
Who says an Indian is lazy? Mr.
Trumbly, a full blood Osage Indian,
raised 12,000 bushels of wheat in his
nation this year to defray the expense
of his daughters at college.
The latest style of baling cotton in a
round bale will do away with cotton
compress, says the Chichasha Express.
With this new bailer the cotton comes
from the gin in a round bale so closely
pressed that it is smaller and firmer
than a compressed bale.
Major Woodson, agent of the Chey-
enne and Arapahoes, has telegraphed
the secretary of the interior for a regi-
ment of soldiers to preserve order dur-
ing the election to take place soor.
He says the Indians are already be-
yond control. Troops have been or-
dered from Ft Sill.
A spark from an engine set tire to the
middle wooden span of the Cimarron
railroad bridge. A Santa Fe engine
and crew rushed to the bridge, extin-
guished the blaze and stopped a south
bound freight The bridge supports
were slightly weakened, and a wreck"
ing crew worked all night repairing the
structure. Timely discovery prevent-
ed the total destruction of the bridge.
The Rock Island company has offer,
ed a reward of $."i00 for the arrest and
conviction of each of the persons en-
gaged in robbing its train, No. 3, at
siding No. 1, on the first instant Par-
ticulars state that the robbers failed
to open the express safe and all the
money obtained was taken from regis*
tered letters and passengers, amount-
ing in i^ll to about 8400.
THE WORLD'S ARMIES.
BAD NEWS FROM DAWSON.
Stores «n<l Restaurants Without Sup-
plies for Over • Month.
Skatti.k, Wash., Oct 4.—The
steamer Farrallonc. which arrived this
morning from Skaguay, Alaska,
brought 110 returniug prospectors,
among the number being Lonis Lang,
who left Dawson City, August 20. He
said: "When I left Dawson the stores
had stopped selling supplies and res-
taurants had closed because they
could get nothing to cook. 1 believe
that provisions will be scarce, although
many of the miners are leaving.
In my opinion 200 or 300 will come
out over the Dalton trail within the
next few weeks, while a great many
others are going down by St. Michaels.
It w as a great mistake in trading com-
panies to bring so mnch whisky up
the river instead of supplies. Hefore
we left Dawson nine cattle had been
driven in and four of them butchered.
Choice cuts brought 91.50 per pound,
interview before he iaUed, j hil« «up bone w« worth Ml ecnta
General Miles said; -Wheal left! 1 P 'd « ••>« * per pound tor elk
WHAT CENERAL MILES SAW
IN EUROPE.
Russia Milking Oreat Progress—Ger-
many's Soldiers the Itest Drilled nnd
Showiest — Oooil Words for France'1
Troops—Uncle Sam's Soldiers.
London, Oct. 4.—General Nelson A.
Miles, Mrs. Miles and aide de camp.
Captain Maus, sailed for the United
States on the American line steamer
St Louis to-day, having been in Eu-
rope since May on a tour of military
observation. The general has in-
spected everything of military interest
from the urinies of the great power*
in field action down to "balloons and
bicycles," as he remarked, lie has
looked over fortifications, barracks,
camps and ordnauco works of all
classes.
JAPAN STORM SWEPT.
HAVOC BY EARTHQUAKES
AND TYPHOONS.
Thousands of Honses Destroyed and
Manjr Lives Lost—Presbyterian and
Ilaptlst Missions Suffer—Reports From
Various Outlying Towns
TAMMANY SCORED.
Democrat lo Alliance of Greater New
York Reaffirms the Chicago Platform.
Nkw York, Oct. 4.—At the city
nominating convention of the Demo-
cratic Alliance of Greater New York,
held last night, Henry George was
unanimously nominated for mayor.
The nominating speech was made by
| Charles Francis Adams. The nomin
ation was greeted with enthusiast tu
| applause. The platform, in part, is as
Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 4 —The steam- follows:
er Victoria of the Northern Pacific ! i.^he Democratic Alliance is a body
line arrived from China and Japan 1 0f Democrats loyal to the policy «>f
yesterday with ton Europeans, eleven the great Democratic party. Our aim
Chinese und forty-three Japanese and ttn,i object was to find a basis fi
3,000 tons of freight, couslsting princi
pally of tea, silk and curios. It is re
JAPAN'S GREAT ENTERPRISE IN
AMERICA.
LARGE At'PROP hi ATI ON BY IM-
PERIAL DIET.
ikforh americans
mark tea.
Washington the war between Turkey
and Greece had assumed such propor-
tions that it looked as though the
neighboring provinces would bo drawn
into it, and possibly one or two of the
great powers of Europe. No one real-
ized at that time that Greece had as- ,
suined hostilities when she was wholly ,
unprepared for war, nor did anyone j
anticipate that Turkey would in forty-
five days mobilize a great army of 000,-
000 men. When 1 arrived at Constan-
tinople an armistice had been declared
and war was practically over, al-
though thc armies have remained in
hostile attitudes and it has taken three
months to agree upon conditions of
peace for a war that had been fought
in five weeks.
"1 have seen all the great armies of
Europe except the Spanish army and
if Spain should declare war against
the United States 1 may possibly have
an opportunity of seeing that. Of
something over 3,000,000 men under
arms, I have seen nearly 400,000 in
barracks and in garrison and in field | [
maneuvers, besides nearly 100,0'10 men
engaged in the construction of war
material
"What I have seen does not indicate
e wanted to iret out as
quickly as possible, I bought but very
few provisions, the entire pack of each
man, blanket and all, weigh-
ing about sixty pounds We came up
the river to Five Gingers and then out
over the Dalton truil. We crossed the
summit September 21 in a snow storm
and had Indian guides to show us the
way. We had to wade knee deep in
snow. Wo met the Sharp party twelve
miles this side of the summit with
their cattle and it seemed to me
doubtful whether they would get in.
It took us just twenty-seven days to
get down to tide water."
Another passenger upon the Farral-
lonc was Henry Brutnober, the min-
ing expert, who is confidential man
for the Loudon Exploration company,
which is controlled by the Roths-
childs. He has been over the Yukon
diggings, going in and returning over
thc Dalton trail.
Others on board were Lieutenant S.
L. Adair, Fifth United States cavalry;
l(S. G. Darrow, formerly a cap-
| italist of Denver, but now living ut
j Montpelier, lnd.; A. Lambeth,wealthy
| mining man of Helena, Mont; O. 1).
Colvln and T. A. Garrett of this city,
j The last named reached the summit of
was ordered by telegraph and will ar-
rive in a short time. Work will begin
at once on the buildings so as to have
them ready. It is the intention to
have the institution in running order
by the first of November.
Judge Thoipas, of the Indian court,
was visited by a committee of citizens
of Tahlequah who wanted to get a jail
that the millenium is at hand, when ...... ... ..
, nil, ,i i i White Pass with his partner, a man
swords will bo beaten into plough- .,, . 1 . . . .
, , named McArthur. 1 hero they decided
shares. There never was another time , , r . ,
that they could take in provisions for
only one man and tossed up to decide
who should push ahead. Garrett lost
and came back to Seattle, lie expecti
to try it again next spring.
shares.
the history of thc world when such
energy, ingenuity and wealth have
been devoted to war purposes. The
resources and industries of many peo-
ples are largely devoted to maintain-
ing largo standing armies and formid-
able navies.
"Fortunate are the people of the
United States that they are walled in
by two great occans, yet this fact
would not warrant them in any other
policy than keeping a reasonable per-
ntage of the population fully equip
Several months ago, the Japanese
: Tea Guild sent to this country a special
j commission, composed of Mr. S. Mlt-
suhashl, president of Shizuoka Prefec-
tural Assembly, and Mr. J. Ohara,mem-
ber of Japanese parliament, to investl-
uuited action of all Democrats in tho gate the condition of the Japanese tea
pending municipal contest We deemed trade in the United States and Canada,
it essential that the Democratic party and to co-operato with Mr. T. Furuya
of Greater New York should reaffirm and Mr. T. Mizutany, the American
cause of the fear that the 10 per cent | the Chicago platform, pledge itself to representatives of the Japanese Tea
discriminating duty would be charged, the policy of municipal ownership and ; ln giving publicity to the merits
Passengers report that an earth- j operation of franchises and to the t){ Japanese teas and tho method of
quake occurred at Yokohama the day | principles of direct employment in- preparing them for drinking which
previous to the ship's departure, lie stead of thc contract system. The would insure the best results.
ported that 600 tons of freight in-
tended for America was withheld be-
BARTLEY'S PLEA.
ska's Defaulting
Oklahoma contains no idlers this
year. There is more work to do at the
present time right in the cotton fields
where better wages are paid than ever
before known. A good cotton-picker
can make from two to three dollars a
day and some go better than that.
Many cotton-growers in Oklahoma
would be glad to get more pickers in
fficient to supplement the I , , .
. ..* , i order to properly care for their crop
The Creek warrants representing the
outstanding indebtedness of the Creek
nation has been footed up and amounts
to $352,000. The appropriation made
by the United States government to
meet this indebtedness amounts to
8333,000. The Creek nation has its
treasury not otherwise appropriated au
amount
and court house in their town. Aiming ! government appropriation mul to dis- , bcfore the flrR, fmsls wllich g-enerally
other things the judge said to them: .'barge the entire indebtedness repre- j jn the lith of pCrso„ul|
'■I want to tell you at the outset that . seated by warrants This, however, j (hjtobw Qr soo„ Ulel.eaf,e,. „ut | of his got
there can be nothing stable or perm a- ! could not be done without the anthon- ^ ^ not or tjama. tarily without being forced intoserv
nent in regard to the federal jurisdie-, ty of the Creek council. If some such
tion in this country until the question j arrangement cannot be made the pro-
of Indian government is settled, and as ' liabilities are that the warrants will
sure as the sun rises and sets a change j have to be paid pro rata, out of thc Special Agent ticorge ( armichael, of
from the tribal governments in the In-j government appropriation as the ■ j the interior department, is making an
:lian territory is inevitable. Nothing ! debtedness exceeds the government effort to secure the pay
can impede the progress of the
Omaiia, Neb, <>ct 4.—The famous
ise wherein the state is trying to ob-
ped'and ta 7ro£tad"ta ''modem appli-1 tuin a j'"'*"""" against the bondsmen
anees and methods of war. i ot defaulting Treasurer Hartley, was
"Germany is on,! vast military camp, j stated «° ln After the
It Is geographically ln such a position <lorncy general said that he would
that it is compelled to maintain a I Provo Hartley had held tho
great military force. On one side is Aus- ! ofti™ four yeMS < 0 was missing
tria,that they have overrun and Franco I ,rom ,ho f,inds' the d<='<>nse made the
that has been conquered nnd a part of startling announcement that Hartley
her territory taken away, by fighting "ot leg 'W in office dnnng the
her when she was at a great disad- I lsst two >'e"r °< his t<,rm' th,0y
vantage. On the other side stands 1 •'" •"'t h bl° '"r the n,on|,y he x10''-"-
the great Russian bear and between I Hartley's term commenced January
these two Germany finds it necessary >• The law specifically declares that
to keep her powder dry. The German ,he treasurer must qualify and file hb
army is kept under rigid discipline, it I b""d Prlor to that tinl,<!- 'n llus
is well drilled, makes the finest ap- j Governor Holcomb refused to app
pearanee on parade, but its fighting thu boIld Januarybecause of some
qualities are no better than the Eng- I 1 h,° , ",i,tte '
lish, Russian or French armies. looked until Januan
To the question as to whether the | approved. I lien
ports of typhoons on all side
heard.
A severe storm prevailed over Japan
last month, and attained tho form of
a typhoon. Tho principal damage so
far as noted in late papers was at
Tokio, where thirty-sev/n houses were
totally demolished, 7,7','H pattly dam-
aged, 14,043 houses submerged. In
Shiydoka there wore J.OOO houses de-
molished and 4,000 rendered practi-
cally worthless. In this district thir-
ty-seven were killed. In the Qifu prov-
ince many bridges were washed
away, the rice crop injured and
other damage done. In the Sal-
tuuia prefecture an embankment
broke and fifteen villages were flooded.
Yejer is practically in ruins. In
Kolishikawa, 1,500 houses were sub-
merged, and in Ushigouie I *>; col-
lapsed. Hardly a house iu Vb*" conces
sion escaped damage; tho Presby-
terian mission nnd Hapti-t, schools
suffered the worst At Toyama I.S00
houses were flooded. The telegraph
wires were prostrated, and, up to the
sailing of the Victoria, it had been im-
possible to learn tho extent of the
damage In tho outlying districts.
PHONOGRAPH SNAP SHOT.
Over the Country.
Chicago, Oct 4. — This morning
John E. Fowler, a Luetgert juror, was
not feeling well, but expressed a de-
sire that tho case proceed, and court
opened at the usual hour. A phono-
graph expert brought Into court to
day a score of receiving cylinders and
a tube, which wero trained on the
witness stand, ami in a short time
phonograph reproductions of some of
the evidence will bo heard all over
the country.
The first witness was Dr. V. A. Mer-
rlllat of the McKillop Veterinary col-
lege, who was called to identify vari-
ous bones placed in evidence by the
prosecution and declared by the de-
fense to be those of the lower ani-
mals. Ho was less confident than
other experts and refused to identify
the gorilla femur, which had proved a
stumbling block to Dr. Allport He
also refused to commit himself as to a
temporal bone, saying that lie wanted
something more than an isolated bone
in order to positively state its proba-
ble nature and connection
tion of the city convention of Sep-
tember 30 is clear to all men. Tam-
many and her allios hide away thc
national banner of Democracy, and
are ashamed to march under its folds.
"The Hen edict Arnolds of last fall,
who deserted to the enemy on the eve
of the battle, are to lx> restored to
places of honor and friendship; tho
franchise grabbers are to retain their
clutch on the city's highways, by
Tammany's aid and connivance. Thus
Tammany und her allies separate
themselves in principle and policy I
from the great Democratic party of
the nation, und must be looked upon
solely as a local body of unprincipled
spoils-hunters, unfit to sit in thecoun- ,
cils of the party whoso doctrine they j
ignore and whose honor they betray
IRRIGATORS ADJOURN.
Nntlnnal Cnnftri
Mr. Furuya and Mr. Mizutany aro
planning to open tea bazars in many ot
tho principal cities in tho United
Statoa and Canada, whore ladies can
enjoy a cup of line Japanese tea made
by experts, and at the same time re-
ceive instructions which will enable
them to make it equally well at home.
More than half tho tea consumed In
the United States and Canada Is of
Japanese growth, yet, the majority of
Americans apparently do not under-
stand how to prepare It so as to de-
velop tho delicious qualities which It
contains. It Is believed by these gen-
tlemen that when Americans are In
possession of the secret of making good
tho consumption in this country
j will fully equal that of Europe iu pro
portion. The Japan—* ffovernment
npp' «>rfated a largs fund to aid
th« fipan Rro r« nnd tea mer-
i In
nal
Lincoln
Mt
r i .iu ootv
coord for in-
wding much
United States, under its present mili-
tary policy, would be able to cope
with a European power. General Miles
replied: ''In any population, it is esti-
mated, one man out of five is capable
of bearing arms. That would give us
an army of 1 '.',000,000. Our people are
strong physically and generally intel-
ligent and well informed. Hesides
that, each citizen is a sovereign and
interested in the welfare
nment and serves vol tin-
ged this year
i to prevent it
caution is taken
: by r. militai
ithousands
whi'jh are leading to this end."
Chief Mayers has given notice to
sheriffs of the Cherokee nation that a
large amount of walnut timber is be-
ing sold in violation of law. The chief
says: "The only timber that
lawfully sold or shipped is d
despotism. We have many
still living who
have s-'on more war, participated in
more battles, than any man in Europe.
J.iut it is another thing to equip an
army with modern appliances for the
defense of a coast where we would
have to use high power guns and mod-
ern projectiles, which it takes years to
construct, while small arms arc not to
i to ] be made in a few days or even weeks,
ti. When tho Modern rifles are different from the
sessed the for- ' squirrel guns, which our rcvolution-
.. i,, i ary fathers went to war. The range
for it here; the above j ,ner . * e*an tounii tiumsc lves asked ^ modern at
the purpose of calling ; to pay about double what they hud |
ffort to secure the payiueut of taxes
-PPropriation by $19,000, says thc Mus- assessed for 1897 in Greer county. The
kogDe Times. j question is causing much discussion by
Thc plant food in a ton of cotton ! Greei* county taxpayers. Greer county
seed at present prices for such mater*
ials in old cotton growing states is
worth 810. To be sure no one would
■an be ! pay such price
n wal- fact is stated f<
1 was taken from Texas
Oklahoma in March, 181
, ( klahoma taxes were as
i mer Texans found the
paid to Texas. Many declared at once
ttint they would pay no taxes, while
1 some were willing to pay only an
I amount equal to what they had for-
: incrly paid to Texas. A few paid the
used assessment The Oklahoma
nt has been declared ilk
district court from which it
walnut timber cut for the pur- I attention to the vicious waste which i*
pose of placing the land in cultivation, caused by burning seed at the gins, as
such timber cut beiug without a law- ; is sometimes done. f otton seed is
ful enclosure. You are hereby direct- | worth at least 85 per ton to every farm-
ed to seize nnd hold all timber not au- , er who expects to continue the growing
thorized by law to be sold or shipped i of cotton. Its value as a feeder stuff 11
to a non-citizen that you may have j is fully this amount when properly fed , a
reason to believe is being prepared f vr j and it may then be returned to the soil j 1
shipment and report the tame with ; to keep up its fertility. Oklahoma has appealed, 'lhc lower court may be
full statement of facts connected there- j a soil that is maryelously fertile, but | sustained in the supreme court upon a
with to this office for further instruc- j no soil will produce cotton indefinitely , technicality. Special ageut < armichael
tions. Should any non-citizen unlaw- ! without a diminished yield unless the has advised the people of Greer county
fully cut or remove timber from the [ plnnt food removed by the crop is in j to pay the taxes due from March 16,
public domain, you will report him to , some way returned. The time to be- ! 1896. as a matter of justice and equity,
the nearest United States commission- I gin is now. It is much easier to keep urging that they are certainty obliga-
tor, furnishing the name of witnesses, ' a good soil fertile than to build up fer- j tod to pay taxes and that they belong
for criminal prosecution." tility when once is is exhausted. - 1 to Oklahoma.
Caddo was incorporated last week Several of the small farmers in Cus- j Edward Francis, aged 17. was jailed
and can claim the distinction of being ter county have held a meesing and re- it Arapahoe recently on the charge of
the first town incorporated in the , solved not to pay over 40 cents per criminal assault committed on the six-
Choctaw nation. hundred for cotton picking. i year-old daughter of Dink \Naguer of
Samuel Davidson, a fugitive from The Choctaw News says: "Dad" King i wi& 1 anther
justice seventeen years, was arrested wants to know the name of .some cot- j I" the district court of lliaine county
nt Oklahoma City last week and taken | ton grown on his place this year. The the jury failed to agree in the murder
to Texas to answer to the charge of stalks are from four to five feet high i ease of Win. Elzy, sr., and Win Elzy,
murder. Davidson is charged with the ! with from forty to fifty extraordinary ] jr., charged with the sho eing of I'ost-
murder of a ranchman named Higler large bolls; the leaves are five lock master Baker, of Coomb*. The killing
in Texas in 1878. He obtained his lib- and measure twelve inches across, j was the result of gossip about the
erty by jumping his bond, after having The cotton is long staple and he will j burning ot tho school house at Coombs
been on trial three times for the crime, have enough for seed next year. Will . nnd took place in the crowded post-
each of which resulted in a hung jury, some one inform him of the variety? office.
Six hundred Sac and Fox, Pawnee Petitions are being circulated and There is coal excitement at Herwyn
and Osage Indians are holding a ghost extensively signed by citizens of the iind prospectors are sinking shafts,
and medicine dance on the Pawnee Five Tribes askiug that Hon. A S. Mc i>e Witt Harper, of Andale. has re-
reservation. A large part of them are Kennon be retained on the Dawes Com turned from a business trip to New-
stripped to the skin and painted in mission. He has the good will and kirk. Kildare, lllacwwell, Ponca City,
most gorgeous style and hundreds of confidence of all classes of people | Tonkawa. Kremlin, the two Enids,
ponies ure being exchanged as gifts. The Canadian county Mill and Ele- j Waukomis, Rourd Pond, Pond Creek
White Hrcad, Caddo Jake and Robert vator company daily ship 6,000 to 7,000 Jefferson and Medford, Oalahoma II.
Dunlap Caddos. were in Minco last bushels of grain to Galveston and New says the wheat in that country excels
week on some business regarding legal Orleans. This company ships from anything he ever saw The crop is not
at Washington. The three stations besines El Reno and has as yet half threshed. The farmers arc
ested in secur- marketed over 200,000 thousand bush- building new houses and burns, uuo
land apiece than els o: wheat for export during the money wms to be plentiful and
jeetiles weigh 700
very great und pro-
pounds to a ton of
j steel. Thc rapidity of tho rapid fire
1 machinc guns, the Maxim and Gatling, !
| is 400 to 600 shots a minute. Although !
, these arc American inventions these I
aro largely used in the European serv- |
representation
Caddos seem more
ing lUt section of ia
the Wichitas do.
past six weeks, says tho El Reno Star, people *ra haoov and hopeful
A BRIDE ENDS
HER LIFE
% nt St. I.uiiIh
• Holcomb refused to approve
cause of
as then
when it was
decisions that
mid indicate that the state supreme
court has held in favor of the precise
position of the defense. In the mean-
time Hartley is in jail under sentence
to the penitentiary for twenty-one
years. What was done with the stolen
money is n mystery which the present
trial is expected to clear.
LEO TO HIS CHURCH
I thorn Catholic* to Greater Fervor In
Worship of tho Vlrxln.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The Apostolic
Delegate has just received the latest
encyclical of Pop* Loo XIII Thla en-
cyclical was written at the Vatican,
the 12th of September, and, like all
the official documents coming from
the l'ope, it bears the seal of the fish-
erman's ring. It will be known
among the papal briefs as "August-
issiinne Virginia Mariue"—the most
august Virgin Marv. The month of
October is dedicated in the Catholic
church to Mary, Queen of the Holy
IJosary, and thc present letter from
the l'ope is to exhort the fuithful to a
greater fervor in practicing this devo-
The pope touchingiy alludes to his
advanciug years and the short period
of labor still before him.
GOLD FROM ABROAD.
hers of tho Is'i ' 1
gross continue', thci
dustrv yesterday, «
work into two short sessions and con-
cluding their convention in time to
allow many of tho delegates to take
evening trains for home.
Ex-Senator Carey of Wyoming, who
was elected president of the congress,
scored a triumph by securing the next
meeting for Cheyenne, und he was
again honored by being chosen as
chairman of the national executive
committee.
Federal versus state control and
maintenance of reservoirs In arid dis-
tricts was tho rock upon which the
convention seemed destined at one
time to split A preponderance of sen- ,
ti men t favorable to federal control | should bo us-ei
was shown on a vote to adopt tho ma- j
jority report of the committee on res-
olutions.
A resolution favoring postal savings
banks was tabled.
. .d It t* hoi>od in..1 leaft
wl'1 •♦•jflents. The main
bureau of the Japanese Tea Guild has
issued an official recipe for making Jap-
anese lea, tho translation of which is
ns follows:
First—Use a small,dry and thorough-
ly clean porcelain teapot.
Second -Put In one teaspoonful of
tea leaves for each cup of tea desired.
Third—When using Japanese teas,
pour on the required quantity of fresh
boiled water, and let stand with closed
lid from 2 to 3 minutes. Never holl
the leaves. In order to retain the nat-
ural flavor, Japanese tea leaves should
be kept in tight can or jar, free from
moisture.
Note.—To thoroughly enjoy the nat-
ural, delicate, and sweet flavor of Jap-
anese teas, neither sugar nor cream
SWEPT BY
mill It••ulta In I'
FLAMES.
lirHKka mul Dnkotn (omitted.
OllAHA, Neb., Oct 4. — Disastrous
prairie fires aro raging in Nebraska
and South Dakota, us a result of the
protracted drouth. From Rapki City,
Chamberlain, Huron, Howard and
I other points in South Dakota come re
of thc flam
On cross-examination by McEwan, j ports of the flames sweeping
assistant state's attorney, I)r. Merril- whole counties, destroying whole
lat was led into a flat contradiction of crops in their path, l'roin Dakota
Dr. Allport as to the identification of City. Chudron and other towns In No-
li femur which Allport had positively | braska large prairie fires
identified as the upper part of the
femur of a hog, Dr. Merrillat just as
positively stating that the bone was
the lower part of tho femur.
SUICIDE AFTER MARRIAGE
NEWS NOTES.
Sedalia bus made her first shipment
of lead ore.
The American paper manufacturers'
trust is about to bo organized.
The first treaty between Japan and
Chili was signed at Washington.
The New York dry goods store at
Lawrence, Kan., lias nssigned.
Great ltritain probably will not take
part in tho sealing conference at
Washington.
One hundred and fifty persons wore
killed by the recent railroud wreck in
India.
Civil war has broken out in Costa
>rted l^ca because the president is a candi-
to be sweeping orer the itate. Mnny ! 1,11 Ltl""' , ,
of the districts aro Isolated, and It Is I"" has resulted In bring-
(eared that lives have been losV Much j Idleness to H,000 persons In one
stock has perished.
NEW PACING RECORD.
an community.
eport comes from Paris that Gc
«h Fro i
Oer -
Mr*. I.eni* Ripley Wnl
Hans* Herself—A Pathetic Note many anil Franc* Received at New York.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 5. Mrs. Leuu Nkw York Oct s.—Tho91,000,<>00 in
Riplev W aters, a bride of three <T°l<t received from tho Deutsche bank
months, committed suicide to-day bv of Berlin by the National City bank of
hanging herself at the homo of her this city yesterday was sent to th«
sister She left a note reading: sub-treasury for examination.
"May heaven forgive me, as I never ! UTouraiuo of the French line,
meant to do wrong. Goodbye to kind which arrived this morning, brought
brothers and sisters. My watch to ! ° er 11.000,000 in gold for the Man-
Lou.—Lee." i over National bank.
FOUR GIRLS DROWNED.
A Mao < apulzeU the lloat by Kicking
It "for Fan."
Birmingham, Ala.. Oct 4.—Two
young men, Robert and John Wright,
brothers, and four girls, Itelle Key,
Lizzie Smith, Mary Swearingen and
Ella Phillips, were crossing the Hut-
tnhutchie river near Hamilton, Marion
county, on their way home from a
"candy pulling "when one of the meu
rocked the s^iff "for fun." causing it
to capsize. The men saved themselves,
but the women were drowned. The
bodies have been recovered.
The Deficit for September.
Washington, Oct 4 —The monthly
statement of the government receipts
und expenditures during September,
1897, shows the receipts to have been
8'J1,933,09S and the expenditures
36f,815, an excess of expenditures over
receipts of 83,4.15, S17.
American (llrl Win* Honor*.
HkRI.in. Oct. 4.—The much-coveted
music prize, known as the MendeU
sohn stipeudum, has been won by
Mity Day* for Murder.
Marsham.town, Iowa, Oct 1.—The
lightest sentence ever imposed on the
two oldest men ever convicted of man-
slaughter iu Iowa was passed upon
Michael and Patrick McCarthy yester-
day. They killed a neighbor uatned
Jordan during u drunken row three
months ago, and were convicted.
Judge Huruham sentenced Michael to
sixty days in the penitentiary and
held over passing sentence on Patrick
during good behavior. Both are
bachelors, one 74, the other 73 years
of age.
Stenographers In Demand.
Washington, Oct '• —There is a
larger demand for fetnalo stenograph-
ers and typewriters in the departments
nt Washington than tho civil service
commission has been able to meet
I'he salaries range from l<W0 to 9l,00C
per anuum.
A Doctor of Yonkers, N. V., .lump*
From a Murrnr Hill Hotel Window
Nkw York, Oct. 2.—Dr. Robert N. i
Flagg, aged 38, of Yonkers, N. Y..
was married there yesterday and went
to tho Murray Hill hotel hen-
last night with his wife. Itoth
appeared to be in good spir-
its and breakfasted about 8 o'clock
this morning. After breakfast tlicy
returned to their room. They had
been there only about fifteen minutes
when Mrs. Flagg ran screaming down
tairs to tho lobby of the hotel nnd
declared that her husband had jumped 1.
from the window.
Employes of tho hotel rushed out
and found Dr. Flagg on the sidewalk.
His skull had been fractured and one <
leg broken and he had received severe t
bruises. Ho was carried into the ho- ^
tel where his wife met him calmly '
Tho ambulance surgeon said that th<- s
man was dying, and soon after h<- I
reached the hospital life passed from 1
him. No cause is known.
Mrs. Flagg, who was a Mrs. Turner
of this city, is about years of ag«' *
and decidedly good looking.
Star Pointer Travels the Fastest Mile
Ever Made In a Race.
Sprinofiki.o, 111., Oct 4.—In a rac I
that was witnessed by at least C 5,iKiG '
people, Star Pointer, on tho fllinois j
state fair grounds, yesterday after-
noon, not only maintained his rnput^
tion as the king of pacers by beating
Joe Patchen, but he also lowered the
world's pacing record in a race by halt
a second, making the mile in j:00>;,
the record in a race having been 2:01, :
which Star Pointer made on Saturday, j
tpteinbor 18, ut ludiunnpolis,
ed a bi
Mass.
a noted war balloonist,
vidence, II. I., aged 75
ent Cleveland has pur-
• fish pond near Buzzard's
defeated Joe Pi
The Dawes and Creek commissions
hnvc reached an agreement for the
abolition of tribal government
An Iowa lawyer bus sued a Missouri
farmer for a 815,000 fee for services
rendered.
I Tho Ui
• I An
ad States
reports t
intc
lsulur agent in
the war has
csts in great
niing Liberals, h<
Sen
with thc
i-.xpeel
of ministc
Cnhan Leaders Fall Out.
Washington, Oct 4. —The t uba
mass meeting announced for yester
day afternoon was haudicap|>cd bv tin-
absence of all the officers of tho Cuban
league except the president. Clan
Bell Brown It is said the league otli Ml
cers aro in a broil and a reorganizn Sr. Pkti
tion is likely. Among the speakers browa, Pi
wero Rev Mr, Byron Sunderland, went out
senior pastor with Dr. Talmage, at soldiers sc
the First Presbyterian church, and During tin
opted the portfo
>.-t I —At Ditr
Rev. Mr. Henry Cowden, chaplain
the House of Representative.
May Order a Ooneral Strike.
Likok, Belgium
tional congress ol
been in session here,
a demanu for an advance of 1 .
cent in wages. If this demand is
granted by the middle of Novetn
the executive committee will ca
general strike.
the
right and i
—Tho nu-
wbieh has
led to make
I'ARis, Oct
advocates a
dreibund. 1
it considers
agricullu rul
in the case o
A mer
—The Eclairi
uco- Russian-A
doing the pa
Orn
Ne
Fri
id exprei
Dead.
.loseph Proctor, the
Actor .lo«e|
Boston, Oct 4
veteran actor, died at J".':4' this morn-
ing at his home on Columbus avenue,
after a long illness. l(o had ln his
Miss Leonora Jackson, an Ameriean time played with a > the stellar at-
oompetitor. tractions of his early days.
Athens. Oct t —King (ieorge has
invited M. Zalmis to form a cabinet,
and he has consented. His acceptance
will probably cause a split au.ong the
Delyannlsts, of which party he Is a
member.
Very Dry In Kentucky
Lou IB VIM. K, Ky., Oct. 4. -The pres-
ent drouth in Kentucky is the worst
in twenty years So great is the
searc'ty of water that the Louisville
fc Nashville otlicials are uneasy und
fear that they will not be able to sup-
j ply their tanks along the road The
damage done will reach up into the
i mil lions.
j (iovernor Stephens accepted th«
resignation of J. W. Dickey us mem-
j her of the Lincoln Institute board,
! uud up p<>i uled J. K Buck tier to suc-
| ceed htm
pport nee
of a I ranco-O
tes the hope th
mbassador to
Jules Cainbon.
bring about the
ho 1'nlte
will do h
alliance ri
Ex-Sec
aged fl'J.
judge
of the Ot<
from office
White Horse Is charged
drunk and beatiug hi
others with numerous ot
Indian law aud etlquetti
ith getting
wife and the
uses against
An epidemic of murder is prevalent
in London and vicinity. Many atro-
cious crimes recently have been com-
mitted.
Count Badeni, Austria's premier, was
shot in the right hnnd in n duel with
Da \Vq19, German Nationalist ludifj
over a political quarrel.
R. ' Wallace has been appointed
postmaster at Hammondsville, Ohio.
He succeeds his father, who held the
office for sixty-eight years.
The Salvationists expect to locate
r.o: families ou farms in the Arkansas
valley In Colorado.
Middle-of-the-road Populists in Iowa
get their ticket on the official ballot
under the People's party name.
Tho Austrian steamer Ika collided
with an E-igllsh vessel it Flume and
sank, carrying down about fifty per-
sons.
Four vessels now in New York har-
bor are prei. ring for a trip to the
Klondike, carr- rig 150 passengers, by
: way of Cape Horn.
The steamer Seattle has arrived
from Skaguay and Dyea with 215 gold
seekers who were unable to cross the
White Pass.
Martin Ross, a coal miner, is
at South McAlister, lnd Ter., cl * getl
with the murder of his bride o' iwo
weeks.
A fusion ticket was nomlnat .f
tho Democrats. Populists and fi it.-
ver Republicans of Montg e 7
county, Kansas.
Professor Stevens made a b 'ot f
ascension at Niagara Falls and ti >•
5,000 feet In the air his ballc jNp
ploded. Ho landed safely in hi:
i chute.
Professor S. N. Hopkins, su *1) *
tendent of the Kl Reno city &e
has been appointed territorial pc^
in tendent of Oklahoma by Got ctmj*
! Barnes.
id bv tiro in tho Hig Ho
Bo
Levi b
linuto
bilk r
is out in & V
not to toleri ■
its
dor lluker has reeoi
erguson for postmastei
11, Kan., thus ending u
fight.
ate New
1. ded
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li g und
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